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...looks, Nevelson's style may be described as collage driven relentlesrelentlessly to excess, a cross between Catherine the Great and a bag lady: pailady: paisley scarves, blue work shirt, full-length chinchilla, OrientaOriental brocade, embroidered waistband, flounces, a rattling boar-tusk necklace and a black riding cap. (When Nevelson was picked as one of the twelve Best-Dressed Women by Publicist Eleanor Lambert in 1977, few of her acquaintances were surprised: there was, as one friend remarked, nowhere else to put her and no known way to ignore her.) "Personally, I'm dramatic, it seems," she told...
...Paisley, Scotland...
...mention saints, prostitutes and writers, he concentrates on the sane. His ideals are Jeffersonian-farmers wander in and out of his collections, and inventors rank only below professional canoeists in his pantheon. Meet Richard Eckert, a man given to "gray suits, gray socks, black shoes, white shirts and Paisley ties," who invents the wave-tossed nuke while he is "standing wet, naked and soapy in his shower." This, perhaps, is inspiration of a sort, but a wet and soapy sort. Eckert came out of the shower, "ate his breakfast and told his wife, Joan, that he wanted to launch nuclear...
...political leaders were not encouraging. The Official Unionists' craggy-faced leader, James Molyneaux, warned against adopting a "rigged Assembly" and reminded fellow M.P.s of the fate of a similar power-sharing plan that was wrecked by a Protestant-organized general strike in 1974. The Rev. Ian Paisley, the militant head of the Democratic Unionist Party, denounced any formula for sharing power with Catholics as "totally unacceptable." Nor were Catholics enthusiastic about the proposed guarantees. John Hume, Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, said only that he would be open to having further talks...
...past few years. "It's as bad as Viet Nam here now," said a South Tyrone auto mechanic who had seen two co-workers gunned down by Prove hit men a week earlier. At an angry protest meeting in Newtownbutler last month, thousands of Unionists cheered as Paisley demanded that cross-border roads be sealed with mines and Molyneaux vowed that Protestants would "take whatever steps are necessary to protect ourselves...